What do the brain and a school of fish have in common? They are both capable of efficient collective information...
Optical pulses, which appear as a flash of light, are used to transmit information in high speed optical fibers, and...
The University of Tennessee’s physicists have led a scientific team that found silicon—a mainstay of the soon-to-be trillion-dollar electronics industry—can...
A certain amount of noise is inherent in any quantum system. For instance, when researchers want to read information from...
Chinese scientists have successfully implemented a new way of quantum key distribution (QKD) which can boost the speed of intercity...
Researchers from the University of Sussex and Universal Quantum have demonstrated for the first time that quantum bits (qubits) can...
Can quantum optics be used for practical applications? A lot depends on whether a large number of photons can be...
Researchers at the Kastler Brossel Laboratory in Paris have succeeded in building the first converter between the two different types...
In the world around us, processes appear to follow a certain time-direction: Dandelions eventually turn into blowballs. However, the quantum...
An exciting prospect in modern optics is to exploit patterns of light—how the light looks in its many degrees of...
Quantum sensing represents one of the most promising applications of quantum technologies, with the aim of using quantum resources to...
A group of researchers recently modeled the transmission of COVID-19 within an isolation room at the Royal Brompton Hospital in...
